General Books


A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World Best Price: $16.00 This at least shows the fact that the origins of the USA's civilization is in the South....	1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Best Price: $8.80 In this beautifully written book Charles C. Mann recollects his journey to old tribal communties...	A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America Best Price: $8.99 Yes.... if you are a card carrying member of the white race desperate to cling to the myth that...	Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America Best Price: $17.65 I had heard good things about Nixonland and it started out very well. Unfortunately, Perlstein...	What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford History of the United States) Best Price: $19.75 I debated giving this book a five star rating but decided to go with four stars because author...



Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs Best Price: $13.73 I enjoyed most of the book. By the end the battle scenes got somewhat repetitive. But I...	Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West Best Price: $3.95 Read this as a first edition hardback---my Amazon reviewing is a little behind, to say the...	Just How Stupid Are We?: Facing the Truth About the American Voter Best Price: $14.50 A light, mildly entertaining book on the subject of American ignorance. The author provides...	Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War Best Price: $6.30 Excellent and informative. This book is a must for history buffs and teachers. Mayflower busts...	1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance Best Price: $15.39 His earlier book, 1421, was very good but this one falls very short of the mark. Mostly, it's...



Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Seagull Edition, Volume 1 Best Price: $22.50 This was required for college and read several chapters before dropping the class because of an...	A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last Great Battle of the American West Best Price: $12.65 I read "Son of the Morning Star" fifteen years ago and thought that might be the...	Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Seagull Edition, Volume 2 Best Price: $22.50 Overall, this is a pretty poorly written book. Most of the important events are glossed over....	America: A Narrative History, Seventh Edition, Volume 1 (America: A Narrative History) Best Price: $30.00 The item I received came quicker than I expected. However, it was the wrong edition.	American Colonies: The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume1) (Hist of the USA) Best Price: $10.12 This book gives us the information we never received in middle school. The history of the...

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, Revised and Updated Edition Best Price: $17.78 I purchased this book years ago and I still have it. I purchased it after high school (catchy...	America: A Narrative History, Brief Seventh Edition (Single-Volume Edition) Best Price: $30.00 This is one of the most portable but comprehensive history textbook for US history. It is a...	Born in Blood And Fire: A Concise History of Latin America, Second Edition Best Price: $31.35 Though maybe a little to sympathetic to Castro, this is a great book on the history of Latin...	1776: The Illustrated Edition Best Price: $19.85 1776 is the best book I have ever read, period. And it is non-fiction. I could not put it down.	Havana Before Castro Best Price: $19.80 My wife and I escaped Cuba during the early sixties. Almost certain that we might be returning...

Panama Fever: The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Human Achievements of All Time-- the Building of the Panama Canal Best Price: $17.27 This book is subtitled "The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Human Achievements of All...	America: A Narrative History, Seventh Edition, Volume 2 Best Price: $30.00 I did not rec' this book. The seller was unaware that I had purchased it and did not mail it to...	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West Best Price: $8.00 Have you ever played cowbow and indians when you were a boy? I did and always wanted to be the...	Modern Latin America, Sixth Edition Best Price: $40.49 Thomas Skidmore is simply a genius. Modern Latin America brings a insightful and precise...	America: A Narrative History, Brief Seventh Edition, Volume 1 Best Price: $23.18 Used by over one million students, America: A Narrative History is one of the most successful...

Portrait Of America: Volume I Best Price: $47.38 A secondary source reader is a hugely valuable resource for teaching American History. Portrait...	America: A Narrative History, Brief Seventh Edition, Volume 1 Best Price: $23.18 Used by over one million students, America: A Narrative History is one of the most successful...	Portrait Of America: Volume I Best Price: $47.38 A secondary source reader is a hugely valuable resource for teaching American History. Portrait...	Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (2nd Edition) Best Price: $12.00 Delivered early. Great condition. Good delivery info provided. I'll do it again.	Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a Cultural History) Best Price: $18.00 How lucky I feel to have come across and finished one of those rare books that not only provides...

Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Seagull Edition (Single-Volume Edition) (Seagull Edition) Best Price: $33.34 "We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same...	Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis Best Price: $7.55 As a Cuban refugee I was training for a job in Key West when the Cuban Missile Crisis ocurred. I...	Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy Best Price: $10.96 Given that this book is essentially covered by the reviews of its primary source...	Voices of A People's History of the United States Best Price: $11.50 It's a good book, with a lot of collections of articles from history. But it'll be nicer if it...	The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008 Best Price: $14.54 Unfortunately this is a book which does a fine historian no credit. It is poorly written with...

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West Best Price: $11.67 There are going to be other reviewers who can provide more erudite reviews-- reviews better...	The Terror Conspiracy: Deception, 9/11 and the Loss of Liberty Best Price: $10.91 This book brings up some good points, and points out inconsistancies in the "official"...	Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America Best Price: $7.95 What a superbly weaved tale in a very readable book which held my interests throughout. A great...	Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States) Best Price: $14.90 Kennedy vindicates the editors' choice to devote an entire volume of the Oxford History series...	First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History Best Price: $51.97 I just finished a class on Native American history. The use of the text "First Peoples: A...

America: A Narrative History, Brief Seventh Edition, Volume 2 Best Price: $23.54 Used by over one million students, America: A Narrative History is one of the most successful...	Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage Best Price: $13.56 As a social worker who deals with the population portrayed in this book day in and day out, I...	Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 Best Price: $10.96 This well written and well organized book is a careful synthesis of the enormous secondary...	America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11 Best Price: $16.16 This book is the first account of US foreign policy in the 1990s that treats the decade as...	April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America Best Price: $5.93 Dyson gives us a good work here, although not his best. He should have subtitled the work,...

America Past and Present, Volume 1 (to 1877) (8th Edition) (MyHistoryLab Series) Best Price: $78.00 When read aloud, this book really breathes life into an otherwise boring class. My teacher...	The Souls of Black Folk (Dover Thrift Editions) Best Price: $0.01 In 1903, two years after Booker T. Washington's autobiography, "Up from Slavery",...	The Conquest of New Spain (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.88 I purchased this book intending to get an unbiased view of the Spanish exploration of the New...	The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts Best Price: $2.47 I can recommend this book because the facts I found were not only interesting, but also...	The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People Best Price: $57.55 This book is very easy to read and understand. If you don't know much about U.S. History, and...

Visible Bones: Journeys Across Time in the Columbia River Country Best Price: $11.36 People who have read my reviews of other books by Jack Nisbet know that I consider him a very...	For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War Best Price: $10.69 This book is mainly for academics and true historians. It's a short book, which makes it a...	Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest Best Price: $10.49 Interesting book. Had an interesting perspective, but it was not the grand and iconoclastic book...	Truman Best Price: $12.43 I couldn't have been more pleased with this book. I love David McCullough and he never ceases...

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